both black boxes found
Kathmandu airport officials said that both the black boxes of the crashed Yeti Airlines plane have been recovered. According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), the K9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu at 10.33 am. While landing at Pokhara airport, the plane crashed on the banks of river Seti between the old airport and the new airport. Search and rescue teams resumed the search operation on Monday, officials said. Both the cockpit voice recorder and the aircraft data recorder were recovered today.
what is black box
Black box is called ‘flight data recorder’ in technical terms. The black box is the same device that records all the activities on the airplane during the flight. There are two black boxes in a plane. One is on the front and one is on the back. In these, every little thing of the flight is recorded. After a crash, based on the information in this box, the events that lead to the accident are reconstructed. It is made of titanium and hence survives even after a crash.
badly burnt corpse
He said that preparations for the post-mortem of the dead bodies have been completed. A medical team is being airlifted to Pokhara from Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu. As soon as they reach Pokhara, post mortem will be done at the Western Regional Hospital located there. The flight that crashed had 53 Nepalese, five Indian, four Russian, two Caribbean, one Irish, one Australian, one Argentinian and one French tourist on board. Nepal Police spokesman Tek Prasad Rai told that the work of identifying the dead bodies is going on. But the bodies are so badly burnt that it is difficult to identify them.
